smoe.org mailing lists
ivan@stellysee.de
| From | Joe Field <joe@flyingcolorscomics.com> |
| Subject | Re: 1st Quarter & TSOOL... |
| Date | Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:01:02 -0700 |
[Part 1 text/plain us-ascii (1.4 kilobytes)]
(View Text in a separate window)
Randall J. Paske wrote:
... among my new favorites are the Soundtrack of Our Lives' "Origin Vol.
1" (don't miss their live show)...
Saw TSOOL last night at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.
These guys are really entertaining with loud, dirty guitar playing,
Stones-ish stage antics, lead singer Ebbot Lundberg's "Ian Anderson
meets chunky-era Brian Wilson" persona, and just really cool songs.
Soundtrack songs are laden with great riffs---I'd say they're the
riffiest band around.
As for the opening bands, American Minor, a five piece band from West
Virginia was making their SF debut. If you take the Spin Doctors and
Black Crowes, put them in a blender, leave the lid off and turn it on to
frappe, that's what American Minor sounds like. Just a mess.
The Dears from Montreal started very slowly with a 10 minute drone of a
song. A woman at the table next to ours screamed at them "Stop it!
You're killing me!!" That aside, I liked a lot of what came after the
annoying opening piece. The songs were almost prog-long, the sound is
big, some songs feature three guitars or three keyboards, plus two youg
women on b/g vox. Definitely not a band for lovers of three-minute pop
songs, but there's still some good stuff going on.
Joe Field
http://FlyingColorsComics.com
Free Comic Book Day is May 7
http://FreeComicBookDay.com
For assistance, please contact
the smoe.org administrators.